Lexicographical Neighbors of Scavager
Literary usage of Scavager
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The scavager was an officer who had formerly very different duties; see Liber
Albus, ed. Riley, p. 34, where is mention of ' the ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"The sense has much changed; a scavager was an officer who acted as inspector of
goods for sale, and subsequently had to attend to cleansing of streets. ..."
3. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"Spelman has no Scavenger or scavager. ... l>i '. sv)] And the scavager or scavenger
was originally the officer charged with the inspection of the goods and ..."
4. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1862)
"... at all times when you shall be re- " quired by scavager or Bedel, for the
common nuisances " of the Ward; and also, if there be anything done " within ..."
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